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<< News >> Neanderthal site discovered in Norfolk

Submitted by Paul M on Tuesday, 25 June 2002  Page Views: 1655

DiscoveriesArchaeologists excavating a quarry in Norfolk have uncovered what could be one of the best-preserved Neanderthal sites ever found in the UK.

The skeletons of three or perhaps four mammoths came to light during gravel extraction earlier this year. It is unclear whether the beasts were hunted, or their meat simply scavenged from corpses but they are likely to reveal much about Neanderthal life - perhaps around 60,000 years ago.

David Miles, Chief Archaeologist at English Heritage, said: "It is extremely rare to find any evidence of Neanderthals and even rarer to find it in association with mammoth remains.

"We may have discovered a butchery site, or, what would be even more exciting, first evidence in Britain of a Neanderthal hunting site which would tell us much about their organisational and social abilities.”

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Re: Neanderthal site discovered in Norfolk by coldrum on Sunday, 04 February 2007
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NORFOLK MAMMOTH FINDS - PUBLIC ARE EYES AND EARS SAY EXPERTS

As a team of researchers settle down to study the results of a dig in Norfolk, one of the county’s top geologists has praised the public for their key part in notifying professionals about finds.

The week-long dig in a meadow near Saham Toney was undertaken at the end of January 2007 after a workman operating a digger in October 2006 discovered three woolly mammoth teeth and a couple of bones at the bottom of a gravel pit.

Knowing that Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service (NMAS) offer a free identification service for such finds, the driver contacted Nigel Larkin NMAS Curator of Geology with his finds to see if they were of interest.

“They were basically digging a lake to put fish in it and the digger driver noticed a couple of bones and a couple of teeth,” explained Nigel Larkin, “It’s was interesting because they belong to quite a young individual.”

His interest piqued, Nigel went to visit the site and found more bone fragments as well as an area rich in tiny freshwater snails, other molluscs and ancient plant remains.

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